 Our
thanks to the curator of the Austrian Submariners
Museum for sending this picture (the extent of the
Monitor's readership is truly amazing).
Just one glance at this photo and the nostalgia
is so thick you can almost smell the mixture of
salt air and diesel fumes; it makes you want to
say things like, "when I was a lad, we made voice
recorders out of girders". In an attempt to trace
the history of these wonderful examples,we once
again called on the knowledge of our oldest techie
and all round sage of the voice recording industry
William Hall (15 years with BSL and prior to that
wireless-man first-class in the Irish Navy). William's
view is that this is a sea-borne type Mark 1 six-valve
recorder used by submarine command; the give-away
being the small lateral mounting gimbal brackets
on the side. Hhmm, the News Hound thinks there is
some definite leg-pulling going on here but we give
William full marks for the story line and hey; it's
a great photo!
and the most amusing extract from the
Monitor's mail bag this month is:-
One of our readers asked us to add the word 'squat'
to our website 'jargon buster' and supplied the
definition as follows: - Squat 'the accumulated
call-recording knowledge of a PBX manufacturer that
attempts to sell this application to it's customers
under the guise of a one-stop-shop communications
strategy.' There is no denying the fact that this
had the Monitor's news team rolling around in hysterics
for days but it was finally decided that this was
a somewhat jaundiced view from an individual with
a bitter experience and in the interests of entente
cordiale with the PBX manufacturers we decided to
decline the entry.
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